Year: 2006

The October letter from the editor (http://msdn.com/vfoxpro/letters) is now live. This announces the October CTP of Sedna and SP2 for Visual FoxPro. The CTP previews several enhancements: Enhancements to Reporting, SQL Server Upsizing Wizard and DataExplorer. It also includes earlier components: NET4COM and the MY library for VFP.

This entry was originally posted on SmartClientData blog. If you’ve been wondering why you are not able to access stored procedure return values from TableAdapter, here’s the solution for you. I will use tbTasks table and spInsertTask stored procedure to demonstrate the solution. You can see definitions for both below. CREATE TABLE dbo.tbTasks ( …

As many of you know, after a major release, people at Microsoft tend to look around to see what they’d like to work on next. After working on two releases of Visual Studio and a similar number of releases of Visual FoxPro, I’ve accepted a position in Microsoft.com as an architect focusing on our community…

Today I published the April 2006 letter for Visual FoxPro.Incidentally, in that letter I mentioned that the Team System team is about to release a MSCCI provider for Team Foundation Server which includes support for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Then this afternoon YAG sent me an email saying that the beta for the MSCCI is already…

Paul Flessner announced the new addition to the SQL Server family. This will provide a lightweight storage on all clients and will include support for seamlessly synchronizing with other SQL Server editions.Milind Lele

Jim Gray was interviewed for Behind The Code back in early March. Jim’s a Technical Fellow here at Microsoft and manages our Bay Area Research Center. For data folks like me, he is one of the people that came up with the theories that underly transaction processing in databases – and he works on scaleable…

Kate’s blog entry reminds me that I haven’t mentioned that I’ll be speaking at Devteach in Montreal on May 8-12. It’s a great conference – I spoke at the first one, and have missed the past few years – looking forward to being back again. My keynote will be about Linq (of course <g>). On the…